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TEN YEARS 



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NEWSBOYS. 



Col, ALEXANDER HOGELAND, 

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Founder of the Ijouisville Newsboys and Bootblacks' Association and Night Schools; author 

of the work on the Mineral and Agricultural Resources of Kentucky; 

and late Secretary of the Mechanics and Manufacturers' 

Exchange, and late Agent Kentucky Infirmary. 



FIFTH EDITION. 



LOUISVILLE, KY. 

PRINTED BY JOHN P. MOBTON AND COMPANY, WEST MAIN BTBWW&, 

1884 



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MY MOTHER'S VOICE. 



I have yielded at last to the solicitations of friends and to 
a growing impression with myself that I ought to put in print 
my strangely-romantic experience of ten years among the 
newsboys and bootblacks of Louisville and other cities, for 
the benefit it may prove to others in stimulating them in 
efforts to assist those who are struggling with the adversities 
of life. I may here say that for whatever I may have accom- 
plished in this way I am, in God's providence, indebted to the 
kind, Christian influence of my affectionate mother; for in my 
whole life, from childhood to manhood, she was the guiding- 
star to whatever of good I may have been enabled to accom- 
plish. Her maiden name was Parker. She was left an or- 
phan at six years of age. A month thereafter she took a trip 
of one hundred miles, horseback, in charge of her oldest 
brother, over the mountains of Pennsylvania to the house 
of an uncle in Virginia. The story she told me in my 
childhood of the sympathy shown her by those relatives in 
raising her has proved an incentive to me to assist others in 
return. Mother often said, "My son, help others as I have 
been helped;" and now my greatest anxiety is that those who 
read the incidents and actual experience in my own case may 
in turn do something to help others. It is "bread cast upon 
the waters," and w^ill return to you, as it has to me, in a 
reward measured by a thousandfold. 



TEN YEARS AMONG THE NEWSBOYS. 



Ten years ago, on a sultry spring-day, as I turned out 
of Fourth into Green Street, at the corner of the old Louis- 
ville Theater, now replaced by the Courier-Journal building, 
I heard the cry of " Fight ! fight ! " Perceiving newsboys 
on the opposite side of the street, I rushed over into the 
crowd ; a glance brought to view two newsboys fighting des- 
perately, encouraged with shouts of " Give it to him, Piggie ! " 
" Hit him again, Sam !" My nature is such that I was only a 
moment deciding as to my duty. I took Piggie in my arms 
and did not stop until the pump, a square off', was reached. 
A few words of sympathy, then the application of pump- 
water, and the fretted, angry, and bloody-faced boy was paci- 
fied. He then explained that the big boy had thrown his 
papers in the dirt, and a fight was the result. 

That incident prompted the opening of a night-school a 
few weeks later, with Piggie as a scholar. It was held in the 
basement of the old Unitarian Church, corner of Fifth and 
Walnut streets, and was to some extent an experiment, but 
certainly proved a great success, chiefly for the good moral 
influence it exerted on the newsboys of that day. A very 
good, perhaps the best, feature was the opening in the building 
of a commodious wash- and bath-room. After two winters of 
careful training by faithful teachers, the City School Board of 
Louisville opened night-schools, taking in the newsboys, with 
an attendance of six hundred scholars. 

A brief reference to reforms growing out of the Newsboys 7 
School is worthy of mention. The first of which was the 

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of thought he threw off his coat and went to the rescue, dis- 
appearing in the same spot where the fisherman had gone 
down. The moments they were out of sight seemed an age, 
but there soon appeared on the surface the form of the colored 
boy striking out with one hand and with the other firmly 
grasping the hair of the drowning fisherman. A moment later 
the friends relieved the colored boy, and by vigorous rubbing 
brought their half-dead companion to consciousness and life. 
When he asked who saved him, they said, the negro boy. 
He was full of expressions of gratitude, and wanted to pay 
him, but this was modestly declined. A crowd of nearly forty 
persons, who had been gathered by the excitement, testified 
their approval of the heroic act in rounds of applause. That 
was, indeed, a brave act, and I know you will say so." Each 
boy raised his hand in approval. " Now, boys, I wish to put 
a question to each one of you. Suppose you were to fall into 
the Ohio River to-morrow, and the only person near enough 
to rescue you was one of the boys you have just chased over 
to Green Street; and suppose you should call on him to save 
you, and he should recognize you as one who stoned him 
to-night, could you reasonably expect the boy to aid you?" 
There was magic-like silence for a few moments. Realizing 
the providential turn the moment afforded, I then said, " Boys, 
all of you who will, from to-night, take as a motto, ' Live and 
let live/ hold up your hands." It was unanimous. " Since 
Emancipation-day colored boys have wanted to sell papers 
and black boots, but whenever they appear they are run off 
the street. You can not help seeing, from the story I have 
just told you, that you may sooner or later find yourselves in 
trouble, and you would think it a great hardship if certain 
boys should drive you out of the streets, and thus prevent your 
making a few pennies to get your living. Now, I am going 
to take a vote. All of you who will, from to-night, agree to 
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Monday night was the time set, and a full house was the 
result — some with only standing room, and all anxious to 
know what was going to be done. A few moments were given 
to remarks of a general character, with short sketches in the 
life of street-boys and others. Then incidentally I asked every 
boy who felt thankful to the merchants for the benefits of the 
night-school to indicate it by holding up his hand. The ex- 
pression was approved. A further request was then made as 
to their feelings for the good advice and for occasional enter- 
tainments. This was also heartily indorsed. 

To make it still more emphatic, I said, " Boys, you have 
just expressed, in a very prompt and decided manner, your 
hearty thanks for the night-school and other favors bestowed 
upon you. I am now about to give you the best advice I can, 
and let all who are willing to act on it hold up their hands." 
There seemed to be a spirit of reluctance to vote on the ques- 
tion, for fear it might in some way place them in an embar- 
rassing position. I reminded them that only good advice had 
been given, and there was only one desire among their friends, 
and that was for their good. A renewal of the vote brought 
a unanimous show of hands. I then repeated the saying of 
the merchant who refused to give aid to the school so long as 
there were any boys over fourteen years of age blacking boots. 
" This, boys, is the best advice I have ever given you. I now 
say to every boy over fourteen years of age who wants to 
make a man of himself, never black another boot, but go at 
once and learn a trade. If you do not, boys, the business 
men will not support the school longer, and here are one hun- 
dred boys under twelve years of age who will be deprived of 
an education, while you large boys have enjoyed two terms, 
giving you each a fair start." It was a solemn moment. Many 
shed tears, not knowing what to go at, after having blacked 
boots from boyhood to that night. I assured them in the most 
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IT WAS KINDNESS. 

After all that is done and said, this sentence, "It was 
kindness," is the secret. This expression may be fairly named 
as the "crown jewel" in a catalogue of the most valuable 
expressions in our language. If a boy is sick, visit him; if 
his fingers are cut, bind them up; if broken down, stock him 
with papers or blacking; if arrested, follow him to jail and 
secure his release. Reference to a few of many cases must in 
this pen-sketch suffice. 

That of Matt. Devine, whose foot was accidentally crushed 
between the couplings of two railroad-cars, between which he 
was trying to pass with his elder brother's dinner. I heard 
of the accident two weeks after it occurred, and went imme- 
diately in search of him. It was on a bleak and cold day, 
and a strong western wind in December went howling mourn- 
fully past the three-story brick tenement, on the Ohio River, 
at the foot of Bullitt Street. A little boy, acting as guide and 
holding my hand, said, as we reached the head of the dark 
stairway, "Now we are on top; when the door opens you will 
see a light, and that 's where Matt, lives." The door opened, 
and I stepped in. A pale, care-worn woman replied to my 
question about the wounded boy, pointing to a bed. I stepped 
up and was greeted with a smile from little Matt. Then, 
introducing me to his mother, he said, "It's Mr. Hogeland, 
the friend of the newsboys." I had not met her before, and 
in her affliction she was very deeply distressed. She thanked 
me for my sympathy, and said the family all knew me through 
Matt, and her grown son Jimmie, both of whom had been 
newsboys. I arranged for the removal of Matt, to the Ken- 
tucky Infirmary, where, a few days later, good doctors came 
and cut off the crushed limb. Careful nursing for nine weeks 
restored the boy to health, but left him a cripple for life. 



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hands with each one ; and for two squares, under the bright 
moonlight, many followed as an escort. Who, I will ask, can 
blame me for especially liking those in the humbler walks of 
life, when they give such strong proofs of appreciation of 
kindness shown? 



MATT. McCUE— FOOT CUT OFF. 

Attention is called to another incident almost identical with 
that of Matt. Devine, and the moral lesson it teaches merits 
attention in these pages. I refer to the accident, on August 
17th, to the little six-year-old newsboy, Mattie McCue, residing 
at No. 49 Fifth Street. Providentially I happened near by, 
and the screams of a boy at the side of a passing street-car 
invited my attention, and a moment later I stood beside him 
and bound my handkerchief about his crushed and bleeding 
limb, and then, stepping into a telephone-office, notified three 
leading physicians of the accident. An hour after the injured 
leg was cut off above the knee-joint, rendering him, as in the 
case of his namesake given above, a cripple for life and an 
object of deep solicitude to his grief-stricken parents. Atten- 
tion from good friends, including the ladies of the Flower 
Mission, proved a great relief to the mother. Along with plans 
suggesting themselves for assisting the family was the opening 
of a branch wash-room for newsboys in that vicinity in charge 
of the little boy's mother, compensating her from the News- 
boys' Association fund. The plan being approved, tables with 
basins and towels brought one hundred children of all sizes ; 
and now, after eight weeks, there is no abatement in the 
attendance, and from all a hearty expression of approval, and 
"more clean faces and better order there than for ten years 
before." So say some of the neighbors. Thus the sad afflic- 
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but failed to be on hand, proved to have practiced a deception, 
for he was arrested a few days later, at the request of his dissi- 
pated father, on the charge of being a truant and runaway, 
and by order of court was sent to the House of Refuge. 

The case of John Pelton was none the less interesting. He 
was supposed to be an orphan boy, but was in reality a runa- 
way ; for he had a father, mother, sister, and brother, as the 
sequel will show. Johnnie made his appearance in Louisville 
some two months ago, and was boarded a portion of the time, 
given a good outfit of second-hand clothes, and several times 
stocked with newspapers. He seemed industrious and honest, 
and made no objection to getting a place, provided one could 
be found. Two weeks later, on the occasion of the singing of 
the choir of the House of Refuge at the Christian Church on 
Chestnut Street, Johnnie, with some forty other boys, was 
present, and his case being made known, Mrs. Boyd, residing 
at 816 West Chestnut Street, proffered the supposed orphan 
boy a home. On calling next morning at the Association 
rooms on Jefferson Street, I met a gentleman giving the name 
of Mr. Joseph Muzio, of Gallipolis, Ohio, and who claimed to 
be the father of Johnnie Pelton. A brief explanation satisfied 
me that the man's story was a true one, and that the boy had 
practiced a deception. I lost no time in calling at the resi- 
dence of Mrs. B., the lady who kindly proffered him a home, 
and returned with him to the rooms where the distracted father 
was in waiting for his son. For prudential reasons I had not 
told Johnnie of his father's presence in the city, and on enter- 
ing the room the boy walked directly up to where a half dozen 
boys were sitting before the grate warming themselves. They 
seemed aware of what was about to transpire, and each gazed 
intently toward the father of Johnnie, who sat in the corner 
of the room and unobserved by his son, almost breathless with 
suspense for a sight of his lost boy. At this moment the boy 
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him, he struck out for Chicago — a few weeks there; then a 
trip to Cincinnati, remaining about the same length of time 
thence to Indianapolis. In the various places, blacking a few 
boots daily and selling some papers constituted his means ot 
support until he reached here. His clothing was in a fearfully 
dilapidated condition, while his head was covered with a spe- 
cies of honey-combed ringworm. The hair had completely 
fallen off, leaving him a fearful spectacle to behold, and caus- 
ing every body at first sight of him to involuntarily get out of 
his way. Arrangements were made for boarding him, and the 
professors of the Medical University of Louisville agreed to 
treat his case gratuitously for the use he would be in a series 
of lectures before the students. He has now well nigh recov- 
ered, and will soon be furnished with a suitable home. As 
evidence that the boy had enjoyed training in a Christian fam- 
ily, he has on two or three occasions, when the Association 
was holding outdoor meetings, stood up before large crowds 
of persons and repeated in an impressive manner the Lord's 
Prayer. 

John Bryer, better known among the newsboys as " Pitts- 
burgh/' aged fourteen, very polite and well-behaved, made his 
appearance in the city six months ago. His story is briefly 
told. His father kept a saloon, and mother and he quarreled 
eight years ago, since which time I have never seen them, and 
have been trying to make a living for myself." Two weeks- 
ago thin clothing and the inclement weather caused Johnnie- 
to seek shelter at the newsboys' room. Not being well, he 
made a request to be sent to the House of Kefuge, which being 
made known to its officers, he was admitted. When asked by 
the superintendent what recollection he had of his parents, he 
replied, "Very little;" but said he could sing a song taught 
him by his mother, and that was all, two verses of which 
he sang in an impressive manner. I left him after accom- 
panying him to the institution and seeing him introduced 

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I then remembered a cure for stammering, told by my 
father in my boyhood. It being simple, I will give it here, 
as it may profit others. I told the boy to place his tongue on 
the roof of his mouth before speaking. This being done, he 
discovered to his great joy that he was cured if he only ob- 
served the rule. The theory is this : Persons who speak dis- 
tinctly place the tongue against the roof of the mouth before 
uttering most words, although not conscious of it ; while stut- 
tering or stammering persons let the tongue fall loosely in the 
mouth. That boy is now a young man, and has many times 
referred to his relief from stammering through this simple 
remedy. 

One day, more than six years ago, I was met on the street 
by three boys, who informed me of the arrest of one of their 
newsboy companions, who by accident had broken a carriage- 
window, and the police were taking him to jail. I went on a 
double-quick with the boys and found the police within a few 
yards of the prison. An explanation brought all back to the 
store, near Fourth and Green streets. The lady occupant of 
the carriage was much excited, and offered to let the boy off 
on payment of two dollars for the glass. It was clearly shown 
to be an accident, and fifty cents was agreed upon as the price 
to be paid. I pleaded strongly for the lad, and was delighted 
when the lady agreed to forgive him on the promise not to 
do so any more. The policeman said he had no case against 
Jim, and let him go. 

Four days after, while seated at my desk in the rooms of 
the Mechanics and Manufacturers' Exchange, of which I was 
the Secretary, I was called upon by the same boy, who laid 
a pocket-book on the desk, saying that he had found it. The 
owner, hearing who had found a pocket-book with over thirty 
dollars in it, called next day and left two dollars to reward 
the newsboy's honesty. Some think his being rescued from 
prison a few days before, after breaking the carriage window, 



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has been sleeping in stairways and under benches, and beg- 
ging at kitchens." The sympathies of the merchants were 
touched. They took the boy. I passed the store four years 
afterward, and there was Mike, as big as life, passing freight 
in and out of the store — an industrious and a good young 
man. 

Reader, you can not reform a bad boy by staying away 
from him. 



A CASE THE REVERSE. 

The incident in Mike's case was followed by an earnest re- 
quest from another boy, who said a word from me was all 
that was needed to secure steady employment in a first-class 
house. I accompanied the boy, and the word securing steady 
employment was about being uttered, when the senior member 
of the firm, seeing the boy, and hearing his name mentioned in 
connection with office-boy, spoke up in a most decided way, 
" Hire that boy ! No, sir, under no circumstances. This is 
the boy who cut open feather-bags at our door some months 
ago, and when I drove him off he taunted me, and used lan- 
guage quite unbecoming. I want no such boy." The boy's 
expression of regret for his folly failed to change the decision 
of the merchant not to employ him. 



"FS NOT A-PLAYIN* 'POSSUM." 

Many persons other than the writer of this have been 
troubled with a desire at some period in their lives to do 
some big thing or nothing. A month ago I was met on 
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A BOY'S HANDS GET HIM A PLACE. 

Scarcely a day goes by that does not furnish an incident 
carrying with it some valuable lesson. 

On a stormy day in February last, a newsboy, well known 
for his energy and honesty, having passed his fourteenth year, 
at which time, by general consent, boys begin to look up a 
trade or occupation to take the place of the temporary calling 
of newsboy or bootblack, called on me to recommend him. 
The request met with my cordial approval, and a hearty rec- 
ommendation was given him to a leading firm in the city. 
Accompanying the boy was a companion whom I did not 
know; and after the newsboy expressed his thanks, the boy 
unknown to me, evidently wanting a place, also asked if I 
would not give him a letter. I replied that I did not know 
him; that I had never seen him before; but that if the news- 
boy companion would say it was " all right," I would give him 
a letter to parties that wanted a boy. There was a moment of 
silence all around, the strange boy and I waiting for the reply 
indorsing him. At last the newsboy said, " I do n't know the 
boy quite well enough for that." It was an embarrassing 
position for the two boys, and in order to relieve them I said 
to the poor, sorrowful-faced boy, "Where did you work last?" 
He replied, "I was roustabout on a steamboat." Knowing 
this to be hard work, I asked him to show me his hands, as 
he said he had no letter. These he exposed open to full view. 
They were truly a sight worth a dozen letters. The palms 
were blistered and hardened, giving every evidence of severe 
manual labor. I said, "I will write you a letter on those 
hands," and a recommendation was written expressing the 
fact. No other evidence than those hands, tough and blis- 
tered with honest toil, secured the boy immediate employment 
in a machine-shop. " Do n't you see, boys, we are often judged 
by appearances." 



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along. I saw at a glance that it was a providential turn in my 
favor for preventing accidents among the boys, and readily 
consented on condition that they assist me in preserving order. 
It was a verification of the Scripture saying, "If you want 
friends, you must show yourself friendly." I put the hood- 
lums in charge of a portion of the boys, and " all went merry 
as a bell." 

It was perceptible that during the offering of prayer and 
the delivery of the address on the grounds no one could have 
desired a more attentive audience. The day and occasion are 
often referred to by boys, now grown to manhood, who were 
along. 

It has always been a custom on our festival occasions to 
review briefly the history of the past, and especially note the 
blessings of a kind Providence. In addition to some inci- 
dents already given in the address of Christmas, 1881, atten- 
tion is called to the short but forcible address of Dr. Christo- 
pher C. Graham, now nearly one hundred years old, he having 
just entered upon his ninety-ninth year. It is the voice of 
one who was, as he states, the friend and companion of the 
first settlers around the Ohio Falls, and in memory recalls the 
days when forest-trees stood on the ground now covered by 
the court-house, City Hall, and other public buildings in Lou- 
isville, untouched by the ax of the pioneer, and when the 
smoke of the cabins on Corn Island was the signal of welcome 
to the weary emigrants in search of the then Far West. Dr. 
Graham occupied the head of the table at the dinner to the 
boys at Kufer's Hotel, November 27, 1879, on Thanksgiving 
Day, and spoke as follows : 

"My Dear Boys : I am glad to meet with you on this pres- 
ent occasion. I feel a deep sympathy for poor boys who are 
struggling to make good men of themselves. I feel like say- 
ing that I am your grand and great-grandfather ; for when I 
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With our best love and our best wishes that a good 
Providence may bless you and all good citizens of our land, 

Yer ^ tru1 ^ Newsboys. 



DATES OF ANNUAL FESTIVALS GIVEN THE NEWS- 
BOYS OF LOUSVILLE, FEOM MAY, 1872, 
TO JUNE, 1882— TEN YEARS. 

If a certain amount of vanity in the leaders of the best 
military companies or the most renowned benevolent organiza- 
tions is not only pardonable, but in the highest sense com- 
mendable, then, dear reader, may we not indulge the hope 
that for our ten years among the newsboys of Louisville 
(without pecuniary reward) we, too, are pardonable for a like 
feeling; provided, however, that there were no higher con- 
siderations to stimulate efforts to relieve the sad lot of many 
of our newsboys. 

We now give the dates of anniversaries, holiday and sum- 
mer festivals enjoyed by Louisville newsboys during the past 
ten years. In this connection we shall again express thanks 
to kind friends for assistance, without which but little of the 
work could have been done, and to an overruling Providence 
which through that long period granted the most entire free- 
dom from accident: 

May 1, 1872. Meeting at mayor's office, Louisville. 

October 10, 1872. Home opened, at Fifth and Walnut 
streets, in the old Unitarian Church; lodged and fed forty 
boys. 

November 27, 1872. Our first Thanksgiving-dinner; two 
hundred boys present. 

January 12, 1873. Night-school opened, Fifth and Walnut 
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May 3, 1882. Complimentary entertainment given news- 
boys at German Baptist Orphans' Home on East Broadway. 

June 2, 1882. Eleventh annual festival on steamer Shall- 
cross. A moonlight-ride up the Ohio to Eighteen-mile Island; 
steamer donated by Ferry Company; refreshments furnished 
by a generous citizen. 

December 25, 1882. Christmas-dinner. Politeness of mer- 
chants and press of Louisville ; at Novelty Restaurant. 



GOING TO CHURCH. 

The practice of taking the newsboys to public worship in 
some of the churches, on Sunday night, has been attended 
with the best results; and has given on each occasion a 
marked improvement to the moral tone in their behavior. 

On April 16, 1882, in company with a large number of 
boys, I attended Walnut-street Presbyterian Church, where 
the House of Refuge choir sang, to the delight of all. 

On May 14, 1882, with twenty boys, I attended the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church South, corner Fifth and Walnut 
streets. 

On May 28, 1882, with forty boys, I attended the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church, corner Third and Guthrie streets. 

On June 11, 1882, with twenty-five boys, I attended the 
Episcopal Church on Sixth Street. 

On July 16, 1882, with twenty boys, I attended the First 
Christian Church, corner of Fourth and Walnut streets. 

On Sunday evening, July 23, 1882, in company with thirty 
newsboys, I attended the Christian Church, corner Eighteenth 
and Chestnut streets. At the conclusion of an interesting 
discourse and the baptizing of a young man, the announce- 
ment that an orphan newsboy was present and wanted a home 



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his new protectors, whose elegant attire and fine social posi- 
tion contrasted strongly with the little orphan newsboy's calico 
waist and bare feet. Willie Davis lost his parents by yellow 
fever." 

I have not space to spare, or I could give scores of other 
like incidents that exhibit in a touching manner the readiness 
of professing Christians to practice what I have humbly en- 
deavored to teach, and thus showing that my solicitude did 
not end with the poor street-boys simply registering at the 
rooms and washing their faces. 



A NEWSGIRL'S LOVE OF MOTHER. 

At the last Christmas dinner, given at the Novelty Restau- 
rant, and heartily enjoyed by newsboys of Louisville, New 
Albany, and Jeffersonville, there were present five newsgirls, 
exceedingly modest and well-behaved. When dinner was 
about over, Mr. Vail informed me that one of the girls de- 
clined to partake of dinner, and, on inquiring the reason, she 
replied that her widowed mother and little sister were not able 
to get a turkey-dinner, and she would carry hers home and 
divide it with them. The incident gave such strong proof of 
affection for the loved ones in the newsgirPs poor home that I 
requested Mr. Vail to place three dinners in a basket and send 
by the child to the mother and sister at home. Can any in the 
land furnish an incident so full of beauty with self-sacrifice 
and filial affection? 



THE FUNERAL OF SAMMY STOUT. 

The 7th day of last March will long be remembered by the 
newsboys of Louisville. It was the day on which the Asso- 









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PLANS FOR ATTRACTING, INTERESTING, AND 
INSTRUCTING THE NEWSBOYS. 

From the frequency and nature of the inquiries received 
from various parts of the country for a statement of the plans 
adopted for interesting the boys of our night-school, etc., it 
has been deemed advisable to give in brief the plans adopted 
in the work at Louisville. First, a large and well-ventilated 
room, well warmed, with a supply of washstands, towels, ten 
tin basins, with the same number of glasses, soap, combs, and 
brushes. School is held five nights in the week. Part of two 
evenings is given to vocal music, military drills, and occa- 
sional distribution of fruits, etc. The offering of prizes, books, 
etc., proves to be of great assistance. If the interest can be 
kept up for a month, the habit becomes so fully confirmed with 
each boy that their own better judgment asserts itself, and the 
intellectual good they receive they think a sufficient reward. 
During the first four weeks there must be no pains spared or 
opportunity lost to interest. The attention and instruction 
must be such as to completely interest the boy ; in other words, 
more attractive than any other place. Opening and closing 
with a hymn, and saying the Lord's Prayer in concert. There 
will be some who may at first be disposed to make sport of 
the singing and other attractions, but it soon brightens self- 
respect. It is only feeding the religious nature of the boy,, 
which from contact with vile practices and rude men had been 
well-nigh starved out. There must be the same effort to teach 
a boy the trade of being good as that of a printer, a silver- 
smith, or any profession or trade. Concert of action with 
parents strengthens the boy's belief in our sincerity as to his 
being and doing good. Suitable occupation in any boy is abso- 
lutely necessary. If allowed to remain idle, they will go from 
bad to worse. 

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spirited newsboy, they muster new resolution and rise above 
the discouragement. 

His career has gathered additional luster from numerous 
acts of benevolence. These are so well known as not to re- 
quire reference. The redeeming quality of Patrick Murphy 
during these twenty years was solicitude for his aged mother. 
If all other acts of the man were counted out, the tender care 
for his good mother would outshine all else in point of moral 
grandeur. The man's course of life marks him as one of ex- 
traordinary energy, and with it a beautiful type of benevolence 
and gallantry. He is often referred to as gathering about the 
poor, stopping in his double-quick movement at the cry ol 
distress, as it came from the families suffering from the floods. 
in the Ohio ; or again, that of the poor emigrant on the steam- 
er's deck, the levee, or at the depots, as they huddled about 
their spare stock of worldly goods, destined to points in the 
extreme North or South or the slopes of the far-distant Pa- 
cific. Murphy is to the army of newsboys just what the gal- 
lant Gen. Phil. Sheridan was to the Union army in the rebell- 
ion, or the dashing Gen. Custer, the famous Indian-fighter, 
who perished only a few years since in the memorable fight 
with Sitting Bull and his warriors on the Little Rosebud River, 
in the Big Horn country of the Black Hills, was to his gallant 
soldiers. Hundreds of young people of Kentucky and the 
South, when they shall have grown old, and when Pat Mur- 
phy has disappeared from our streets, will tell their children 
and grandchildren how, when they themselves were boys and 
girls, they remember having seen Pat Murphy, the old news- 
boy, with his arms full of papers, running and shouting 
through the streets of Louisville, " Here's all the the latest 
dailies." 

Thus will the memory of the most remarkable newsboy of 
the age in which we live be perpetuated. 



TEN YEARS AMONG THE NEWSBOYS. 37 

STREET SCENE IN NEWSBOY LIFE AT THE COR- 
NER OF FOURTH AVENUE AND GREEN 
STREET, LOUISVILLE. 

The illustration opposite is from a scene sketched and en- 
graved by the well-known and popular artist, Mr. George 
Kerr. It represents in a most faithful manner a scene in the 
daily life of a newsboy, corner of Fourth Avenue and Green 
Street. There are three prominent characters that will meet 
with a prompt recognition. First is the newsboy Zeke Howe. 
An accident received in childhood rendered him a cripple for 
life. He is now thirty-five years old. His frail form and 
youthful expression give him the appearance of the average 
newsboy, while his exceeding gentleness and civility render 
him a universal favorite with all classes of the community. 
He is represented by the artist seated, as for the past fifteen 
years, in his invalid-wagon, selling Louisville and Northern 
and Eastern dailies. 

The second scene gives the likeness of a little six-year-old 
newsboy, whose limb was cut off, on a hot day during last 
summer, by his accidentally falling under a passing street-car. 
In the engraving a customer is seen dropping a coin into his 
extended hand, while his face beams with a smile of satisfac- 
tion. 

A third object, and a great favorite with the newsboys, is 
their pet dog, Jack. The artist shows plainly the loss of one 
of poor Jack's feet, cut off by a railroad coach, at the J., M. 
& I. R. R. depot, at Fourteenth and Main streets, in 1880, 
whither the dog had strayed from his country master. Even 
this poor dumb animal has by his docility and playful disposi- 
tion taught the more rude of Louisville boys a lesson worthy 
of their imitation. 

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MOTTOES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS THAT WANT 

TO BE GOOD AND USEFUL MEN 

AND WOMEN. 



A GOOD BOY. 
An idle life, an early death. 

Grood company or none. 
Obedience to parents and employers. 
Order in work, and personal cleanliness. 
Daily duties are life's safeguard. 

Be self-reliant; it's the key to success. 
Order is the first law of nature. 
Your salvation is a personal act. 



A GOOD GIKL. 
Good deeds return reward to the giver. 
In a life of virtue is the full measure of happiness. 
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth. 
Love is the guardian angel of a happy home. 



FOE BOTH. 
Opposition to wrong, a victory for right. 
Do as you wish to be done by. 
Conscious right gives us courage. 
Conscious wrong makes cowards of us all. 
Make money before you spend it. 
Youth is life's golden opportunity. 



BOY'S LIFE-MOTTO. 
" I will not take the smallest thing I see, 
Which I should not like to lose if it belonged to me." 



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HINTS TO PASTORS, PARENTS, AND TEACHERS. 

My work among the youth has been so heartily indorsed 
that I am urged to give a more minute account of the plans 
for interesting and securing the hearty co-operation of the so- 
called worst of boys in devotion. I will mention three cases 
in point. 

In my recent lecturing tour of the State, and while spend- 
ing Sunday at Maysville, a friend, hearing that boys were 
taking part in my meetings, inquired as to the particulars. 
So I will state briefly just what took place. By previous ar- 
rangement I was given fifteen minutes to speak at the close 
of the services of the M. E. Church, in which to explain the 
nature of my work among the newsboys. I was accompanied 
to the church by the son of the hotel-keeper, a youth of ten 
years. Just before entering the church I spoke of having to 
make a short address, and expressed a desire for some one to 
offer prayer, if it was only the Lord's Prayer. The youth 
said he could say the Lord's Prayer, and would do so if I 
desired. Immediately I concluded my remarks and requested 
the little boy to make the prayer. Without the slightest hes- 
itation he rose before the large audience and repeated, in an 
impressive way, the Lord's Prayer. Though so simple, the 
childish voice and evident presence of the Spirit touched all 
hearts. Many were in tears, and there were numerous 
expressions of approval. How do you account for this readi- 
ness of a mere boy to pray ? I answer, in the preparation. 
On leaving my hotel, an hour before, I invited the boy to my 
room and with little ceremony asked him to bow with me in 
prayer. After praying briefly myself I requested him to say 
the Lord's Prayer. This he did very promptly ; and it was 
this preparation that secured a repetition of the prayer at 
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I now give the following explanation and rule, which, if 
observed by pastors, they may double their efficiency and 
learn the true theory of aiding the young and old in embrac- 
ing Christianity : 

First, meet the boy or man alone in your or their own 
house, with none present except yourselves, without any cere- 
mony, except telling the person they may repeat the Lord's 
Prayer after you offer a short prayer. The effort is at once 
directed to the youth or older person, and is a verification of 
the Saviour's promise that where two or three meet in his 
name He is there, and that to bless. The very utterance of 
this prayer brings the person face to face with the Lord, and 
this submission is followed by a desire to tell it to others. I 
am convinced that if this course was pursued there would be 
no lack of persons to assist in prayer. The author will thank 
any professing Christian who may feel impressed to give this 
plan of reaching the unconverted a fair trial and give us in 
writing the result of his experience. 



BOY- AND GIKL-LIFE. 

On the top of the Alleghany Mountains in Pennsylvania, 
amid the great forest-trees, there stands a building. The rain- 
drops from the eastern side of this house find their way down 
the side of the mountain in apparently unnoticeable quantity, 
and there unite with other rain-drops from the hillsides and. 
mountain-tops along the valley. A few miles below they form 
quite a stream. Farther on we observe boats crossing on the 
bosom of this stream. Still farther on, the stream widens, 
and we see it pass through the mountains at Harper's Ferry, 
a place full of historic memories. Farther on, growing wider 
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pleasure to yourselves and, in a moral sense, a blessing to 
others, as these great rivers have, in a commercial sense, been 
to the world. 



THE PRIZE STORY. 

I was traveling years ago on a railroad-car. e It was pro- 
posed by some one that four gentlemen should give to the 
remainder of the passengers a history of the incident in their 
lives that had been the most remarkable, or that had im- 
pressed them more than any other circumstance. 

One of the four gave a thrilling account of having been 
on the Rocky Mountains during a thunder-storm, where he 
looked down upon the clouds, saw the flashing lightning, and 
felt the shock of the thunder, and heard the rain strike the 
ground. He was above the storm-cloud, and the sun shone 
with its usual splendor. 

The second gentleman stated that he had participated in a 
buffalo-hunt, charging the herd, on horseback, and shooting 
them down at discretion. This event was remembered by him 
with unusual satisfaction. 

The third gentleman had been a passenger on board a 
Mississippi palace-steamer years ago, when racing was cus- 
tomary, and he described a hotly contested race between the 
steamer he was on and another steamer, in which passengers 
and crew entered into the excitement. This he declared was 
an event in his life of most remarkable interest. 

The fourth gentleman stated that it had been his pleasure 
to spend some days in the family of a friend where all the 
children were proverbial for their strict obedience and for 
close attention to household duties, and where each in turn 
gave careful attention to certain duties assigned him ; there 
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and blind, was remarkable for her energy and perseverance. 
Music and needle-work she performed with as much skill and 
accuracy as many persons who have all their faculties. 

These instances at once furnish a telling rebuke to a large 
class of persons who have all their faculties, but who for 
want of energy and self-reliance become useless to themselves 
and ofttimes objects of public charity or victims of crime and 
dissipation. 



POWER OF IMITATION— BOYS AS CREATURES 
OF IMITATION. 

Nothing is more certain than the disposition of children to 
imitate the actions of other people. Let a circus come to the 
city, and from the hour the bills are posted you see groups of 
small boys, sometimes on the street, generally in their own 
yard, turning somersaults, or in some way personating the 
action of the showmen, springing over barrels and boxes, 
imagining groups of horses placed side by side, and where one 
after another of the performers go bounding through the air. 
Or may be, they go round a ring, with an ambition to fill the 
place of the boy rider whose power of imitation and training 
has brought him into the circus business. Or, again, they 
harness a dog to a small cart, and say, " This is the king of 
beasts, fresh from the jungles of Africa, and I am Van Am- 
burg" (for many years a noted trainer of wild beasts). 

In view of this disposition in boys to imitate what they 
see and hear, it should be the aim of parents to bring before 
their children for imitation and instruction that which will 
impress them for good, and only good. One of the most pop- 
ular showmen now living is a striking illustration of this. 
His father was for years a professional showman, performer, 
manager, and trainer of boys for circuses. Robert's ambition 



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testimony against the son. The dying man said, " No, I can 
not give it, as it is only a punishment sent by Providence on 
me. I myself, when a boy at the age of my son, threw my own 
father down stairs in the same manner, and he was injured in 
the same way, and died, as I know I have to. I can not now 
punish my son for a crime such as I have committed, and for 
which I was not punished. As you see, like begets like." 



SERGEANT LUCIEN YOUNG. 

It is only a year since Sergeant Lucien Young, the brave 
life-saving hero of the coast of North Carolina, heard that a 
former school-mate of his was m the Kentucky penitentiary 
at Frankfort. He applied to Governor Blackburn for a par- 
don, which was granted. The Sergeant, thinking to cause his 
friend the most agreeable surprise, proceeded to the prison, 
and soon the two former school-boys were conversing of the 
times when they were at school. Suddenly Young said, " Sam, 
what would be the first thing you would do if you were par- 
doned?" ""Well, Sergeant, the first thing I would do would 
be to go to Lancaster and kill Judge Owsley, and one other 
man who was a witness against me." Poor Young was sor- 
rowful beyond expression, and turned mournfully away, after 
saying good-bye, and when outside of the prison he destroyed 
the pardon. 

THE MODEL STEAMBOAT MATE. 

The fact is, children are only looking to see how older 
folks do, to know how to act themselves. I was delighted 
the other day on being informed that the judges of the courts, 
chiefs of police and fire departments frown down the use of 
vulgar and improper language on the part of their subordin- 
ates. Now, if this were the custom on the part of owners 
and bosses of all our mills and manufactories it would exert a 

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foreman over a large number of hands, though a very skillful 
mechanic, fell into the habit of using improper language and 
showing bad temper. His example extended to the opera- 
tives, many of whom were young persons, some were men, 
some women, and others boys and girls. The owner detected 
the sad influence the foreman w<*s exerting and removed him, 
although he regretted having to do it. But the complaints 
came from the parents that the improper language of the fore- 
man was influencing the children, and should not be allowed. 
His place was at once filled by one who was known to com- 
bine good moral habits with a knowledge of his business. If 
good habits are formed in youth, they go through life with us. 
Another manufacturer in Louisville told me he had been in 
business forty years and had watched the conduct of all his 
employes and apprentices very carefully, some of whom had 
been with him over twenty years. About one half of whom 
prior to coming into his employ had yielded to temptation 
and formed habits of dissipation, while others were sober and 
temperate. "Now," said he, " those that remained sober and 
temperate live in their own houses, while those that were dis- 
sipated live in rented houses." This is a sermon in favor of 
sober young men. 

" Dare to do right " is a good motto for boys and girls. 

THE SAILOR BOY AT PRAYER. 

I will tell you of a boy that was a good boy, and whose 
example you may imitate. His mother had given her consent 
for him to become a sailor, and on one occasion, while at sea, a 
very interesting incident occurred that will serve to show the 
power and influence a single individual may exert. The boy 
had promised his mother, on leaving home, to pray night and 
morning, and he faithfully kept his promise. He was greatly 
loved by all the sailors on the ship, and while they themselves 



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that only tend to fill the mind with stories of murders, and 
much that is immoral and unprofitable. You must bear in 
mind that the impressions you get while you are young will 
follow you through life, and that what you learn wrong while 
young you will find it very difficult to unlearn when you grow 
older, The only safe plan to insure your being good when 
grown is to avoid improper habits in youth. 

TIP LEWIS, THE NEW YORK NEWSBOY. 

I have told quite a number of times the story of Tip Lewis, 
the New York newsboy. He had, unfortunately, kept bad 
company, and was considered not a very good boy. He was, 
however, very much endeared to his little sister, a few years 
younger than himself, and loved her very much, because she 
was an exceedingly good child and kind to him. This little 
sister took sick and died, and when the funeral was preached 
the preacher assured the parents and children that if they 
loved the Lord and lived in his love, when they died they 
would go where the little sister had gone, and be forever 
happy. The morning after the funeral Mrs. Lewis, on com- 
ing into the kitchen, was greatly surprised to find Tip up and 
the fire made, water brought, the kettle on, and the room 
swept. She at once expressed some surprise and pleasure, 
and inquired of Tip what had come over him that he should 
have risen so early without being called, and attended to his 
duties without being told? The newsboy, for such he was, 
told his mother that he had turned over new leaf, and from 
that time he meant to be a good boy, as he wanted to meet his 
sister in heaven. Years afterward the gentleman who wrote 
this story was a good and highly-respected Christian, and 
stated to the large audience he was addressing that he ans- 
wered to the name of Tip Lewis, and urged all boys, as well as 
girls, to turn over a new leaf. So, if you would be good men, 
avoid loafing in bad company. Acquire habits of industry. 



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formed his acquaintance, which soon ripened into a warm 
friendship, his superior intellectual endowments serving to 
make his society the more desirable and enjoyable. 

"Finally we began inquiring into each other's boyhood, 
and retraced the steps of memory when we were apprentice 
boys in Indianapolis, twenty years before. My own name was 
perfectly fresh to the book-agent, but his name was a blank to 
me, for I could not recall it. Finally my newly-made friend 
said, ' I may refresh your memory. Do you not recollect a 
boy apprentice at the chair-works, by the name of "Hot Po- 
tatoes/' who one day ran off, and one cent reward was offered 
for his return, and no thanks to the man that brought him 
back?' 'Of course I do/ said I. 'Well, I am "Hot Pota- 
toes." After seeing that advertisement I never stopped till I 
arrived at Yale College, where, after years of alternate study- 
ing, building fires, and acting office-boy for the wealthy stu- 
dents, I was graduated. Having plenty of energy, I became 
successful in business, and now answer third partner in one of 
the largest publishing houses in America. Should you at any 
time come to New York, ring the bell at No. — , Fifth Ave- 
nue. If I am not at home, my wife or some one of my chil- 
dren will give you the name of Charles Thompson, instead of 
" Hot Potatoes." T^his sounds like romance, but it is in sub- 
stance true to the letter. That harsh name, harsh treatment, 
and doubly-cruel advertisement was the lash that sent me, 
friendless, into the world ; but, thanks to a kind Providence, 
I am now able to buy my own chairs.' " 

A day or two later Mr. Charles Thompson, alias "Hot 
Potatoes," and the Kentucky journalist, after recounting their 
early privations, parted. Their first and last meetings were 
under circumstances as full of romance as the story of Rip 
Van Winkle. Forty years ago they were boy apprentices in 
Indianapolis, and have met but once since, and that twenty 
years ago in Newcastle, Ky. The narrator is an honored, 
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himself ; thus agreeing with those who heard him — that there 
was little in what he said either to interest or instruct, it being 
an effort at " wisdom of words " and not the promptings of the 
Holy Spirit, or even spoken at the cost of some privation or 
self-denial. 

The boy of whom I was thinking had his heart touched 
with the plaintive pipings of a poor captive bird which he 
had caught and caged for a few days — till its constant cry for 
liberty prompted the opening of the cage. Acting upon the 
thought, out went the bird; and a moment later, with others 
of the flock, it sang sweetly among the branches of the neigh- 
boring forest-trees. 

The boy hastened to inform his mother of his great joy, as 
well as that of the bird, adding that the bird had taught him 
a lesson. " There," said he, " is a bird-cage, and yonder is the 
bird, now free and happy, and with the rest rejoicing and 
singing. This body of mine is like that cage — just the tem- 
porary stopping place of my soul during life in this world. 
That bird, as soon as released from its cage, sought its own 
kind, to live, feed, and sing with them. So, when we leave 
these bodies, we instantly go into the company of the redeemed. 
There were expressions of joy among the birds over a reunion, 
and there will be joy on our part and that of our friends over 
the reunion in the presence of the Lord. Now, mother," con- 
tinued the boy, "if the Lord has power to cause birds to live 
on the ground or soar through the air, so has he equal power to 
cause me to exist off this earth as well as on it. If his care ex- 
tended to the bird in the cage, how much greater is his care for 
those who are in his image and likeness, and for whom he 
died!" 

Now, the distinguished Mr. Talmage never made the rela- 
tion of man to the Creator any plainer or more easily under- 
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sin cast the first stone." There was a sudden change of feel- 
ing in favor of the wayward Mason and a unanimous verdict 
of acquittal. Truly, " words fitly spoken are like apples of 
gold in pictures of silver." 



FORTY-FIVE YEARS IN PRISON. 

Nearly eighty years ago the father and mother of a family 
residing in Virginia died, leaving their orphan children in the 
care of relations. A six-year-old boy, of beautiful features 
and fine physical mold, was then the central figure of this 
group of surviving children. His early training was neg- 
lected. He acquired bad habits, which strengthened only 
with the lapse of time, and he began a criminal career that 
extended through nearly half a century. 

On Saturday, August 12, 1882, as the clock in the tower 
of the Louisville City Hall was striking twelve, John Hicks, 
at the age of seventy-five years, until then confined in the 
Southern Indiana Prison, on the north bank of the Ohio 
River, opposite Louisville, completed his forty-fifth year of 
prison life. The scene among the prisoners at the departure 
of their old comrade is represented as one of singular dra- 
matic grandeur — as the snow-white head of the criminal who, 
with only the remnant of a long life trailing in the wake of 
nearly fifty years of prison life, was about to enter on the 
enjoyment of liberty, appeared, even the most hardened of the 
regiment of prisoners looked sad and mournful. Their sor- 
rowful glances at the receding form of the old man awoke a 
train of thought — as much as to say, who will care for poor 
Hicks now ? 

What a lesson his farewell address conveys to American 
parents ! " Father and mother died when I was only six years 
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desperate are the straits to which young men are driven, and 
so persistent and determined to regain their losses, that they 
pawn their watches, rings, and other mementos, as well as 
gifts from cherished friends. A pawnbroker stated to me, 
only a few days ago, that it occasionally occurred that 
the same watch would be pawned three times in the 
same day, each time the excited owner taking the half- 
or fourth-value allowance tendered him; and in some cases 
" good luck," as they call it, favored them ; only temporarily^ 
however. Broken in spirit, they drop by the wayside, and 
their places are at once taken by new beginners. If I could 
persuade the owners of the pool-rooms and lottery offices to 
close their doors against the young, I would hail the event aa 
one of the greatest triumphs of my life. If there is a field in 
w T hich a reformer may gain renown as imperishable as that 
.clustering around the name of William Wilberforce, John 
Howard, or Florence Nightingale, it is for the man who has 
the genuine moral courage to frame and enforce a class of leg- 
islation that will at once place the allurements of the vice? 
referred to beyond the reach of boys in every grade of society. 



BAD HABITS STRONGER THAN LOVE OF 
FATHER, MOTHER, AND SELF. 

It is a habit nowadays for young apprentices or clerks^ 
leaving their place for one more desirable by reason of in- 
creased pay or more agreeable occupation, to recommend their 
most intimate acquaintance. Our attention was a few days 
ago called to a case in which a young man resigning as book- 
keeper at once urged the claims of a companion of his own 
age for the vacancy following his resignation. Every thing 
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Japan, the East Indies, etc. In each were messages of greet- 
ing, speaking of the Lord's care amid the perils of the ocean, 
all of which was a most emphatic rebuke to infidelity. 



THE GOOD WE DO LIVES AFTER US. 

This expression was beautifully illustrated in an incident 
in the life of Mrs. Sadd, city missionary, of Louisville. Dur- 
ing the progress of the civil war, and when many thousands 
of Federal and Confederate soldiers were sick in the hospitals 
of Louisville, it was the daily custom of Mrs. Sadd to visit 
the sick of both armies, and distribute tracts, testaments, etc. 
And being a ready and rapid writer, much of her time was 
given in writing to the fond and anxious parents of some of 
the young soldiers ; and through the weary five years of the 
war this good lady wrote many letters North and South, carry- 
ing tidings full of tender sympathy, some of hopes of speedy 
recovery, and others being farewell messages to dear ones 
and hoping for a reunion in the kingdom of the Lord. The 
war ended, the soldiers who survived returned to their homes. 
Time wore on; and for fourteen years after, the good mis- 
sionary continued her mission among the city's poor. One 
morning, three years ago, Mrs. Sadd's door-bell rang, and a 
hackman handed the aged Christian a letter from a gentleman, 
requesting her to call at the Louisville Hotel. Obeying the 
summons, she arrived at the hotel, where she was met in the 
parlor by a gentleman, accompanied by a lady, who greeted 
her most cordially and introduced her to his wife. Mrs. Sadd 
was not able, however, to recognize the stranger, who, on per- 
ceiving he was not recognized, said, " Mrs. Sadd, do you not 
remember me?" She said she had not the slightest idea of 
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u A Boy's Sermon," an actual occurrence. A man with a 
small family had taken as a member of it his aged father, 
whose infirm step and husky voice confirmed the old saying, 
" once a man and twice a child." The ingratitude of men, 
forgetting they were once children, so often complained of 
nowadays, was forcibly illustrated in this case by evident neg- 
lect of the infirm old father, whose trembling voice and tot- 
tering steps were thought by the ungrateful son to be dis- 
pleasing to the neighbors when they called. To provide 
against this the son proposed the placing of a table in the 
back room, where the old man could eat unobserved by the 
critical neighbors. No complaints came from the lips of the 
old man, and the palsied hand trembled none the less, and as 
usuaf much of his food fell upon the floor. A day or two 
later the singular nervous affection caused his plate to fall and 
break. This as a matter of course did not escape the notice 
of the son, and was followed by an expression of rebuke, and 
the broken article was replaced by a wooden plate. During 
all this time no complaint fell from the lips of the poor old 
man. There was, however, in that household a firm friend 
of the old man, as the sequel shows. A few days after the 
purchase of the wooden plate the four-year-old grandchild 
was seated upon the floor at the dinner-hour, intently engaged 
in cutting some curious article from a piece of board and giv- 
ing such close attention to his childish employment as not to 
notice the thrice-repeated calls of his father to take his place 
at the table. Finally the father, a little impatient, asked the 
question, " My son, what are you cutting out of that board 
with my knife?" "Why, papa, I am making a wooden 
plate for you and mamma to eat out of when you get old like 
grandpa." A stroke of lightning on that table just then 
would not have caused greater astonishment than this remark 
of their four-year-old boy. The unnatural son was dazed with 
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feet he remarked, " I am going to take a carriage now and 
compel my old mother to go out riding, if I have to pull her 
down stairs." He then walked hastily out of the room, while 
the other members of the company expressed jointly their sur- 
prise over the sharp rebuke of the incident to another whose 
conscience was so forcibly stung with the remembrance of the 
long years of unfeeling neglect and ingratitude to which he 
had subjected his own aged and infirm mother. Thus it will 
be seen that this simple story is an equally powerful sermon, 
whether enacted by the four-year-old boy or repeated by- 
others. 



A DREAM REALIZED. 

There resided many years ago in the town of L , in 

Indiana, a well-to-do mechanic named Downs. His wife was 
a sprightly woman, with three bright children, aged respect- 
ively six, ten, and fourteen years. The father fell suddenly 
sick and soon died. The eldest child accepted a position as 
train-boy on a railroad. Three years of faithful work won for 
the boy the confidence of the road officers. He was noted for 
promptness and honesty. 

One day a passenger, having with him a valise containing 
ten thousand dollars in money, hurriedly left the train at a cer- 
tain station, forgetting his valuable package. The train reached 
its destination. At night the valise was placed in the office, 
but next morning the money was missing. As several parties 
along the route had had an opportunity to take it, two 
brothers, country merchants, were suspected of the crime. 
They were arraigned in court and subjected to three trials, 
only avoiding conviction by the failure of the juries to 
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years elapsed before I again saw or heard of the children. I 
was then married and in business. 

One day, at a railroad station near Indianapolis, the clerk 
of the store where I had stopped remarked to me that an hour 
would elapse before the train was due, and if I wished I. could 
step into the back room and amuse myself by looking over the 
books. Expressing thanks, I accepted the invitation. One 
of the first books that my eyes fell upon was a gilt-edged 
Bible, on the fly-leaf of which was this inscription, ft Pre- 
sented to Harrison Burns by his teacher, A. Hogeland." 
Ten years, as shown by that simple record, had passed since I 
gave it to a little happy-faced boy. Thinking that possibly 
the young man in charge of the store might be the same per- 
son, I stepped up and inquired his name, which he gave as 
Harrison Burns. I then made myself known to him. This 
unusual circumstance, a romance of itself, was one that gave 
mutual pleasure. He recounted his early privations and hard- 
ships. Application and steady habits had been rewarded with 
a good name and a commercial education. 

A few days later I was relating this singular occurrence 
to a man of wealth, who offered the young man thus found, 
through the small gift of a precious Bible, a position as bank 
clerk, which he accepted and filled with credit. A few years 
later he found himself entering upon a lucrative business in 
his own name. Occasional meetings years after were bright 
with reference to the gift of that little Bible. In a temporal 
point of view, and perhaps spiritual, both of us were richly 
rewarded. 



FINDING A FIFTY-DOLLAR NOTE. 

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sequel, il Do as you wish to be done by," was followed by my 
friend, whose acquaintance, formed under circumstances which, 
to say the least, were full of romance, and a prompt introduc- 
tion to the leading citizens of Henderson was the result. 

The incident seems quite appropriate to place along with 
Harrison Burns. They are both true in every particular. 



THE PARADISE MONTH OF SEVENTEEN YEARS; 
OR, HOW GOOD SEED IS SOWN. 

While passing along the street a month since, a gentleman 
of fame, well known in the city, greeted me heartily and said, 
" Mr. Hogeland, we have read your interesting book ; it has 
created a revolution in our family." " Indeed !" queried I. 
" Well, you see we have been married seventeen years. Our 
plan for family government and for managing the children has 
been the old one of scolding and arbitrary means. After read- 
ing your account of restoring the most wayward of boys to the 
paths of rectitude and lives of obedience and profit, my wife 
and myself held a consultation, and determined to give the 
' New Rule/ i Kill rudeness with kindness/ a fair trial. The 
children we accordingly notified that in future there would be 
no scolding or chastising ; that each child would be assigned 
duties in housework, each taking their turn week about. Now 
more than a month has gone by, and we are so highly gratified 
with the result that we call it the i paradise month of our mar- 
ried life/ " The gentleman added further, that if system and 
harmony on the part of business men and clerks, in the man- 
agement of their business, is absolutely necessary to success, 
there is, if any thing, a greater obligation resting on parents 
in controlling their households. 

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the fence and into the street. But instead he ascended a stair- 
way in the rear of the house, entered the attic and struck a 
light. That was enough. The father, out of patience, and 
with no judgment, rushed in and began whipping the boy. 
In the confusion that ensued the table was overturned and the 
light extinguished, while George, without stopping to explain, 
skipped out to his room. 

A few days later George ventured upon another visit to his 
workshop (for such it proved to be), and, unobserved, struck a 
light, adjusted the upturned table, and picked up a miniature 
steam-engine, equal in neatness to the running-gear of a 
Howard watch. The damage it sustained in falling was made 
good. A few days later the beautiful specimen of the boy's 
mechanical skill was presented by him to a school-mate, as 
was afterward learned, and was followed by George running 
off. There was much speculation in the neighborhood, and 
the family remained in ignorance of the strange conduct of 
George in thus absenting himself. 

Five years had passed, when one morning, just as breakfast 
was concluded, the door-bell of the parental mansion rang. 
The servant responded, and found at the door a finely-dressed, 
handsome young man, with broadcloth suit, plug-hat, gold 
watch and chain. The young man's first inquiry to the ser- 
vant was, " I wish to speak to my mother." The astonished 
servant, not aware of the absence of any member of the 
family, replied she did not know Mr. R. had as big a son as he 
was. " If you do not, I do," and, rushing past the servant, he 
remarked, " Miss Biddie, tell mother George is in the parlor." 

A moment later the mother was face to face with her long- 
lost boy. There was a mutual explanation, and a cordial 
reconciliation between mother and son. The father, on step- 
ping in, could not have been more astonished had one risen 
from the dead, than he was on beholding his missing boy. 
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gation to the King of Heaven. There must be coupled with 
it a course of life that carries out the profession. It is doing, 
and not saying only, that gives value to the profession. Even 
the name and high calling of prophets, ministers, and other 
distinguished men have not sufficed to secure their sons from 
lives of wickedness brought about by neglect. 

Roebling, the famous builder, if not inventor, of wire sus- 
pension-bridges, died a few years ago in New York City, after 
he had built the great wire suspension-bridge at Cincinnati 
and the one spanning the cataract of Niagara Falls, and had 
begun the construction of one over East River, connecting 
New York and Brooklyn. Three years ago he met with an 
accident, one foot being crushed by a falling timber, resulting 
in locked-jaw, from which he died. Knowing he was the only 
man that could build bridges of that kind, the directors got 
about him and said, "Mr. Roebling, your physicians think 
you may not get well. You are building a suspension-bridge 
for us, and we are anxious to know what to do should you not 
live. No one else can build this sort of a bridge." Mr. 
Roebling replied to the anxious directors, " I may not get 
well; but then there is my son John, who knows my profes- 
sion thoroughly. If I should die, he will build the bridge 
just as well as I could." Two days thereafter Mr. Roebling 
died; and from that day to this his son has been in charge 
of fifteen hundred men, directing the building of the finest 
piece of architecture and civil engineering the world has ever 
seen in the way of a bridge. 

Now for the practical lesson ! Can artist paint on canvas 
as beautiful a scene as this? The father, on his dying-bed, 
calling about him the men for whom he is engaged in an en- 
terprise of vast extent and very difficult in the execution, 
upon inquiry, says, "My son will take my place." It also 
furnishes a rebuke to idleness, and was a great and memora- 
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beg, and at night sleep on the iron settees down in the park." 
I gave the boy a luncheon, and was rewarded with expressions 
of gratitude, and was conducted to the prayer-meeting. When 
mourners were called for, the first to respond were ten sailors, 
and many others of various nationalities. Among those that 
knelt for prayer at the altar was this poor, neglected boy. I 
paid eight cents for his night's lodging, and next day stocked 
him with a box of blacking and a brush. His face beamed 
with smiles of gratitude as I bade him good-bye. 



FROM THE CABIN TO THE PALACE. 

A POOR WIDOW. 

A poor widow in Pennsylvania, at the death of her hus- 
band, found herself with a large family, and but little of this 
world's goods. One of her boys, realizing that something 
must be done to relieve his mother, determined upon leaving 
home. Accordingly, a few rough garments of extra clothing 
were tied in a bundle, and then there was a hearty and affec- 
tionate farewell between mother and Andy, for such was his 
name. A last glance was taken by his brothers as he waved 
his little cap to them in the cabin-door, just as he turned the 
corner of the lane. The little cabin was soon lost to view, 
and twelve yfears passed before Andy saw it again ; but during 
that time the dutiful son did not forget his mother. Letters, 
full of cheer, came regularly, repeating the promise made his 
mother before going from under the roof of the cabin, "that 
she should have a better home before she died." 

At the end of twelve years there came a knock one day at 
the door. The mother, on opening it, beheld a fine-looking, 
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son before she died. Only a year ago the son, who had grown 
to be an old and highly-respectable man, noted for his riches 
and goodness, passed away to his final reward. It was the 
pleasure of his long and active life to refer with the tenderesfc 
solicitude to his early privations and to his return to the cabin 
on the hillside in Pennsylvania for his affectionate mother, 
and he could say, " Mother, get ready to go with me ; I have 
the home I promised you twelve years ago." 



WANTED SOMETHING MORE THAN FLOWERS. 

A friend of mine called to see a sick old lady, and after 
greeting her kindly, praised the beauty and fragrance of a 
bunch of flowers that lay on the table. The poor sick woman 
manifested little interest in this remark. The neighbor realiz- 
ing that there was a want beyond the fragrance of flowers, 
placed a few pieces of coin on the bouquet, and asked, "Is 
there any difference in the odor now ?" A bright smile re- 
placed the gloom of the preceding moment. " O neighbor/' 
she said, "you know what hungry people want is something 
to eat." 



ORPHANS FROM OWENSBORO. 

While seated in a railway-car some years since a pleasant- 
faced fellow-passenger, hearing of my work among youth, 
said that he would like to give me a history of his experience 
in raising orphans, and stated that " After keeping house two 
years my wife expressed a desire to adopt an orphan, saying 
she was quite lonely at the house all by herself. I replied 
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but that, as an obedient and truthful boy is always in demand, 
she might send him to the steamer. He accordingly went on 
board as cabin-boy, and during two years was never told a 
second time to do any thing — always obeying at once. After 
two years, while the steamer was making her usual trip from 
one of the upper harbors of Lake Michigan to Chicago, she 
encountered a severe storm, sprung a leak, and was sinking. 
Efforts were made to relieve the steamer by throwing over- 
board the cargo of fruit; but that proved of no avail; the 
water, gaining on the pumps, put out the fires. The captain 
notified the passengers and crew that it was impossible to save 
the vessel, and that they must get ready to go into the water. 

The pilots left the pilot-house. The captain urged them to 
return to the wheel, remarking that if the vessel was kept 
straightened out she might be kept afloat until a sail came in 
sight. Still they refused to go. They were anxious, however, 
that some one should take the exposed and dangerous position 
at the wheel, and one of them mentioned to the captain that 
Dick, the cabin-boy, could steer the vessel, and suggested that 
he be sent. The boy, during the two years he had been on 
board, had often been in the pilot-house, and had learned to 
steer the vessel very well. This fact was well known to the 
captain, yet he pleaded with the pilots to return to the wheel,, 
which they positively refused to do. Then turning to Dick, 
the captain asked him if he would not go into the pilot-house 
and steer the vessel, saying they might possibly keep her afloat 
until a sail came in sight, and thus all would be saved ? 

Little Dick heard the request, and knew what the pilot 
said about the exposed situation if the vessel sank. He re- 
plied promptly, " Yes, captain, I will go. Now, Captain, the 
company owes me two months' pay, $18, and there are two 
suits of clothes back in the office. My mother needs the 
money, and the clothing will be of service to my brother at 
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child remained unconscious. At last, one night after mid- 
night, she suddenly opened her eyes, and with an expression 
full of intelligence, clasped her little hands and spoke in the 
most emphatic manner, saying, " I see mamma ; I see 
mamma! ' A moment later the spirit that gave such over- 
whelming proof of the heavenly vision, left the little body. 
Her sorrowing father, though not a Christian, was outspoken 
in acknowledging the vision given to his only child in that 
moment of passing from earth to heaven. 



THE INFIDEL. 

Next to the assassin, the libertine, and the author of ob- 
scene literature, is the open and avowed champion of infidel- 
ity. Though some so-called professors of Christianity are 
guilty of high crimes, and disgrace themselves, it does not 
necessarily follow that their conduct disgraces Christianity, 
any more than a counterfeit coin lying side by side with pure 
gold and silver tarnishes or lessens the value of the genuine. 

It would seem that the so-called infidels, after reading the 
thrilling accounts of daily murders, assassinations, and cruel- 
ties practiced by unprincipled men on inoffensive women and 
children, or of the vile seducer, would feel rebuked, and espe- 
cially after the mention of the incidents given in the address 
at the ninth anniversary Christmas festival to the newsboys 
of Louisville, New Albany, and Jeffersonville. The incidents 
I refer to are, " The boy in Canada, who, after asserting in 
the most emphatic manner to the policemen that he had not 
stolen the watch, fell dead in the street, and a moment later 
the watch was found on his person;" or "The boy on a rail- 
road train, w T ho, after rudely imitating a deaf and dumb man 
sitting beside him, suddenly discovered his voice gone ; V or 



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to both books. The man was an intimate acquaintance of 
mine, and his wife an earnest Christian lady, a member of the 
church to which I belong. After pausing a moment in aston- 
ishment, I said, " Is not your wife a Christian ? And have you 
not full confidence in what she says upon the subject of re- 
ligion? and of her conduct as a wife and mother? and is it 
not a fact that, by accepting the testimony and teachings of 
these infidels, you refuse to believe your wife in regard to the 
existence of the true and living God? Not only this, but you 
ridicule her example before your children; and you declare 
her profession and that of her Christian associates superstition 
and folly." It was enough. A thunder-clap from a clear sky 
could not have startled the professional man more completely. 
He relinquished his hold on the book, begged pardon, and be- 
came a seeker of Christianity. Not many days after, he re- 
nounced infidelity and made a public profession of religion, 
and since then has been, as I think, an earnest Christian, as 
zealous in his advocacy of Christianity as he was in his former 
silly belief in the writings of Paine and Ingersoll. 

An incident equally forcible, and confirming the necessity 
of meeting the infidel with a firm, outspoken defense of reli- 
gion, came to the notice of the writer only a few months ago. 
On that occasion business called me to a town in Kentucky, 
where I suddenly found myself in the presence of several infi- 
dels and scoffers of Christianity. Though all clever men, one, 
a little bolder than the rest, addressed me in much the same 
manner as the professional man just mentioned. I at once 
asked him if he were a man of family. He replied, "I have 
a wife and children ; my wife is a Christian." I then applied 
the same remarks as in the case of the professional man, 
" Have you not entire confidence in your wife ?" and followed 
it with a brief reference to the providential visitations on the 
two boys, and of the youth who from the hay-stack openly 
defied God. The look of astonishment on the face of each I 



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He had expressed a wish to give the signal for the drop to 
fall. The cap was drawn over his face, and, as agreed upon, he 
dropped the handkerchief. An hour later I saw his desolate 
children weeping over the lifeless form of one who, but for 
liquor, might, with the loved mother and wife he had slain, 
have been spared years of happy domestic peace and comfort 
in a household that was then the picture of desolation and 
wretchedness. No artist, however talented, and no dramatic 
actor, however renowned or skilled in his profession, can con- 
ceive a subject for the canvas or the stage that will be so full 
of anguish and horror as the afflicted family of poor Ander- 
son, whose only consolation in deep distress is their trust in 
the Redeemer of mankind. « 

These so-called infidels can, and do, furnish a reason for 
every thing they do, except why they refuse to embrace Chris- 
tianity. In their attacks on religion they rely mainly on the 
follies and failings of professing Christians — questions which 
are of no importance to them in their salvation, since religion 
is strictly an individual matter between the Maker and them- 
selves, the same as between the minister and his Creator. 
Christ died not for one, but for all mankind ; and each must 
render an account for himself, individually. I say, shame on 
infidelity and the infidels ! If one is an infidel or entertains 
such a monstrous and cruel belief, which unsettles the minds 
of men, then, in humanity's name, say nothing about it, but 
treat it as you would the introduction of any doubtful writ- 
ing or obscene literature. 



STORY OF THE LIGHT-HOUSE KEEPER. 

Forty years ago a terrific storm prevailed off Charleston, 
South Carolina. The oldest inhabitants were filled with 
anxiety for the crews of ships that might be seeking a harbor. 



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truth, my little man," said I. He replied, " You see, mister, 
my father is a drinking man ; last week he came home intoxi- 
cated and began beatin' my mother. I took her part, and 
then father gave me a beatin\" He threw off his little gar- 
ments, and from his neck to his waist he was black and blue. 
Then, with the hot tears still trickling down his face, he said, 
" Do you think, mister, I would let a boy whip me like that ? 
Never; no, never!" 

My boots were shined up, and off went the little boy to 
mingle with the street gamins, and take his chance on being a 
good boy, and, further along, a good man. 



THEY DRINK AND SHOOT. 

A few days ago, while in Western Kentucky, a young man 
related to me the following story : " Four years ago a public 
egg-nog was given in our town; two boys of fifteen years 
respectively, raised together and dearly loving each other, 
came along and were induced to drink several times. While 
intoxicated a pistol was given to one of them, with which, 
my informant said, his brother (one of those boys) shot his 
companion, little Dick Heifer, who died instantly. < O, sir, 
the trouble that that egg-nog cost our family ! My brother, 
at that time a sprightly youth, has grown duller and duller, 
until his mind is almost a blank/ " 

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PROUD NEPHEWS AND NIECES, OR THE WILL 
OF THE RICH CALIFORNIA UNCLE. 

All the grown-up people, and some of my little readers, 
are familiar with the story of the discovery of gold in Cali- 
fornia just at the close of the war with Mexico, in 1849, by 
Captain Sutter, who built a saw-mill, and while digging the 
race saw particles of glittering sand w r hich, upon examina- 
tion, proved to be gold ; and as soon as the news reached the 
States many thousands of persons started in search of the 
precious metal. Some went by land, while others took steam- 
ships and went by the ocean. One of the outfits for the over- 
land journey, which consisted of a wagon drawn by a yoke 
of oxen, was owned and driven by a young man who left his 
home and a large circle of relatives. He was very indus- 
trious, highly esteemed, and amassed quite a fortune. He 
never married, and after an absence of twenty-five years 
determined to visit the town of his youth and manhood. 
When he appeared he was dressed in plain home-spun cloth- 
ing, though (as some say) queer and odd-looking. A foolish 
notion of pride it seems filled the minds of his several nephews 
and nieces; namely, that uncle was queer and odd-looking, 
though really quite sensible, intelligent, and interesting in 
conversation. This shyness and neglect on their part was a 
source of grief to the old uncle, and greatly wounded his 
feelings, especially as they were too proud to appear with him 
in company. There was one nephew, however, who was not 
troubled with the silly notions of pride, and this one used his 
utmost to render the uncle's visit as pleasant as possible, and 
when taking his departure for his home this devoted young 
nephew gladdened the heart of his uncle by accompanying 
him part of the journey. Well, six years later there came a 
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shouted, " Take me to the House of Refuge," repeating the 
request in the most emphatic manner, and crying bitterly, say- 
ing, " My mother is a widow, and if I am imprisoned it will 
break her heart." It was evident that the glass of liquor had 
made the boy a mail-robber, and I was determined, if possible, 
to get him consigned to the House of Refuge. I conferred 
with the judge, who decided to place the boy in the House of 
of Refuge. The boy was delighted with the result, and the 
mother was pleased on receiving letters from her son, who fell 
under one drink of whisky, telling her that he was contented 
and happy, and was learning a trade. On one occasion, while 
listening to the singing of some popular airs by the House of 
Refuge choir, I expressed my delight at the music, and espe- 
cially with one voice which was superior to the others, and was 
not a little surprised and pleased to be informed that the boy 
referred to w T as the one charged with robbing the mail, and in 
whose case I was an humble instrument in rescuing him from 
a life of shame. 



THE BOY PRISONER IN THE UNITED STATES 

COURT. 

Some years ago a case was called in the United States Dis- 
trict Court at Nashville, Tenn., Judge Trigg presiding. The 
prisoner was asked, as usual in criminal cases, to stand up and 
make his plea of " guilty or not guilty." If guilty, the judge 
had only to pronounce the sentence. If not, then the jury 
were to dispose of the case on the evidence. 

A mere boy appeared in this case, charged with robbing 
the mail. On being told that the boy was only fifteen years 
old, the humane judge asked if this was his first offense. The 
boy replied that it was. His youthful appearance and really 
intelligent face impressed the judge, and he determined to 



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tices, and thus go rapidly to swell the army of criminals in our 
prisons. It is fashionable for boys to visit saloons and gam- 
bling houses, while girls, with rare exceptions, are never seen 
there. 



THE BOY WHO RAN OFF WITH A CIRCUS. 

Many boys when not profitably employed grow dissatisfied 
with home restraint and long for a chance to rid themselves 
of what proves to be only imaginary evils. 

Charles Wilson, whose case we are about to consider, was 
one of this class. He lived with his widowed mother on a 
small farm near the city of Terre Haute, Indiana. Five years 
ago his mother sent him to the city with marketing. On 
arriving in town the circus of Hemming & Cooper was parad- 
ing the principal streets. The long procession of richly-painted 
dens and cages of animals, preceded by elephants and camels 
and followed by circus - riders mounted on prancing horses, 
and a pretty little girPs carriage drawn by Shetland ponies, 
was a scene that completely captivated the farm-boy, and for 
once in his life he resolved to be a showman, no matter what 
the cost. The eggs and butter belonging to his mother were 
soon disposed of, and Charley, after riding to the city limits, 
dismounted, threw the reins over his horse's neck, and sent 
him galloping toward home. He then turned and left with 
the circus, which he continued to follow until its arrival at 
Henderson, Kentucky, when, to his surprise, he did not get a 
chance to learn to be a circus-rider, as he desired, but received 
only kicks and cuffs. Thinly clad, broken in spirit and in 
health, he longed to get back to his home on the farm in In- 
diana. While thinking how much happier he once had been 
at home with his poor mother, the steamer Mary Houston, 
bound from New Orleans to Louisville, came into port. Poor 



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They were advertised far and wide, and search was made, but 
all trace of them was entirely lost. Several days later the 
grief-stricken parents left for home. After a lapse of a year 
word came to Little Rock that the children were in New 
Orleans, and a few days later they arrived in Little Rock. It 
is the same sad story of " yielding to temptation," and, once 
from home, they could not muster courage enough to go back. 
Finally, sick and feeble, they tell the old story, and through 
sympathy alone are passed along. Being of an industrious 
turn of mind, the girl assuming male attire, they hired them- 
selves out as day-laborers, but soon secured employment on a 
gulf- steamer plying between New Orleans and Galveston, 
Texas. The last heard of them they were awaiting the arri- 
val of their father at Little Rock, weary, sad, and heart-sick 
to see their parents, of whose generosity, though misguided 
judgment, they had taken advantage and, like Charley Wil- 
son, ran off with the circus. 

I feel like expressing myself in the words of another, and 
beg the young every where to use them as a motto, "Oh 
God, make an unguarded youth the object of thy tenderest 



KILL RUDENESS WITH KINDNESS. 

Meeting a rough-looking boy of fourteen years, one day, I 
ventured to ask him several questions in rapid succession, 
which ware designed for his own good, but received only in- 
solent replies. It seemed a race between the boy and myself 
— I to find the rough cord in his nature that would vibrate in 
politeness, and he to play " sharp " and "smart." He had 
gotten fully twenty paces past me, when I finally said, " How 
would you like to get a job ?" Wheeling about instantly, he 
came up to me and said, in a subdued and gentle tone, " Please, 

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he referred to his great wealth and fine social standing, add- 
ing, "Mr. Hogeland, I would rather live in a cabin on the 
frontier, away from all society, than had this occur. This tel- 
egram is my death-warrant. I believe it will kill me." I left, 
after a few words expressing sympathy, and regarding my in- 
trusion at that moment of grief as far more deplorable than 
any ordinary affliction. As is so often the case, habits of dis- 
sipation and bad company led to this unfortunate end. Two 
or three casual meetings during the year followed this sad 
meeting, and each time, with a sigh, the unhappy man would 
say, " O that telegram ! I told you it would prove my death- 
warrant." Scarcely two years had passed ere I witnessed the 
funeral procession of this man, who died, his friends say, " of 
a broken heart." The profligate son died five years later in 
the deepest poverty and disgrace, having squandered his for- 
tune. 

While there is a strong color of the dramatic about this 
mournful story, it is, nevertheless, true in every particular. 



WHO TO IMITATE— MEN ARE WATCHING YOU. 

It is a fact that men are constantly looking for boys of 
good habits. I will illustrate this idea by giving an account 
of a few boys, where in each case some act, seemingly trivial, 
was the means of bringing them to notice. Some thirty years 
ago, in Michigan, a man and his wife died, leaving a ten-year- 
old boy, who was kindly taken to raise by a neighbor. One 
day another neighbor called at the home of the person who 
was rearing the boy, and while conversing, the boy was seen 
coming out of the kitchen, near by, with a hatchet and some 
nails, and, going directly to the fence, he began nailing on 
some broken-down palings. The visitor happening to notice 



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intrusted the money to the keeping of the boy, and, placing 
him on a steamer leaving New Orleans for Louisville, directed 
him to take it to his wife at Leavenworth, Indiana, where the 
family lived on a farm. In those days four weeks were re- 
quired to make the trip up and back. When the merchants 
on the levee heard that the captain had given the Irish boy 
five hundred dollars to carry to his family they expressed sur- 
prise that the fiat-boat owner should trust a mere boy, and 
that, too, on so short an acquaintance, with so much money. 
The captain, however, expressed his confidence in the boy's 
honesty. Nearly a month after the steamer left New Orleans 
the captain received a letter from his wife, saying, " The boy, 
Pat Tobin, arrived five days ago and gave me the five hun- 
dred dollars you sent. I put him to work. He rises early, 
feeds the stock and cuts wood. I like him very much. What 
shall I do with him ?" The captain wrote back to his wife, 
" Keep that boy by all means." 

Forty years have passed since that boy gave such beautiful 
proof of honesty and integrity ; and within a comparatively 
short time the heaviest owner of steamboat stock on the Ohio 
and Mississippi rivers was Captain Pat. Tobin. Having been 
a good boy, Tobin became a good man. 

A gentleman one day remarked to me, "You have so 
many good things about boys, can you not mention some- 
thing equally interesting in the life of girls?" " Yes," I 
replied. " You may take the Lynch family, living in a town 
in Indiana. The father and mother died within a week of 
each other, and left a small encumbered estate and a helpless 
family of children — the eldest being Mary, a girl of seventeen 
years. The court appointed an administrator; and a month 
later Mary inquired what was to be done with her father's 
property. In reply, he said a good deal of money would be 
required to raise and school the family ; there were some debts 
to be paid, and a house to furnish ; to do which would leave 



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from bankruptcy, but they have added twenty thousand dol- 
lars to the estate by superior management as saleswomen, 
bookkeepers, cashiers, and correspondents. 

A boy at Hopkinsville, Kentucky, begged a store-box from 
a merchant, and took it to pieces carefully, removing and 
preserving each nail. The merchant observing this trait of 
economy and care, offered the boy a situation as clerk. It is 
fifteen years since the occurrence, and that boy, now a man, 
is half owner of the store. That boy could stand watching. 



"CHEER, BOYS, CHEER !" 

One of the plans I have adopted to secure increased inter- 
est in my street-lectures and work among boys, is to show a 
familiarity with the boys. 

As soon as I can get a dozen or more in a crowd, I pro- 
pose three cheers. The question is asked, Where do you find 
these boys ? Well, generally, after supper they appear on the 
street. These I meet, and explain that I am going to have 
an " open-air " meeting for boys, and ask their assistance in 
hunting up other boys. They readily consent, on the univer- 
sal theory of sell-interest, or it 's " our meeting ; " and dash 
off on the double-quick for others. 

A few minutes will suffice to bring together a goodly num- 
ber; to these I speak encouragingly. Then I mount a box, 
which they provide, placed in the street, directly in front of 
the stores. This done, I get some one to introduce me. I 
then address a few words to the boys, and propose " three 
cheers (as I tell them) for my success among poor boys." 
The proceeding is so unusual and unexpected that many at 
first hesitate, but others shout. I have seen some break and 
run at first, but after three cheers are given, I urge hearty 

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home that night they seemed to remember nearly all I had said, 
and kept their mother up until midnight repeating my lecture. 

This indorsement was especially grateful to my feeling^, 
coming as it did from an officer of the law charged with the 
peace and order of the town. The excellent chief of police at 
Frankfort, Ky., where I spoke a few days later, also paid my 
visit and address to the boys at the capitol the highest possible 
compliment, adding, as did the chief of police at Mt. Sterling, 
that, so far as he knew, it was the most instructive address he 
had ever listened to for children and youth. Both wished me 
God-speed, and urged me to pay them another visit. 

I will say that in my addresses I avoid indulging in any 
thing of a silly or frivolous character, or in the use of slang 
phrases. I deal only in stubborn facts — just what I have 
taught my hearers to believe. To make a point of telling 
incidents light and trivial would kindle the old spirit of 
frivolity, and all good impressions would be lost. It is my 
invariable custom to close with prayer, which is universally 
accepted. When I begin my talk I caution my audience that 
no expression of approval is expected. 

A careful reading of the incidents in my book will attest 
more fully what a vast magazine of good there lies in the 
hearty, well-directed command, " Cheer, b8ys, cheer !" when 
done at the opportune moment. 

I am frequently asked what rule I have in starting out in 
my addresses. I can not say I have any, except one thing I 
am careful to observe ; and that is, to keep before my audience 
a line of incidents in the lives of persons on a plane below 
that of my hearers ; and especially do I seek to work on the 
chord in human nature that vibrates to sympathy. This I 
generally do by bringing to the mind's eye the figure of some 
one in a position of distress or danger. 

A case in point, in getting the attention of my audience, is 
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From that day to this the father of little Mary has been one 
of the most active workers in the temperance cause in the 
country, making speeches and inducing thousands to sign the 
pledge. 

That, I tell my audience, is the way little children preach. 
This I follow with "Mary Lynch," "The Bee Boy," "Andy 
Baum," and "Pat. Tobin" — in whose cases some beautiful 
incidents have already been given elsewhere in this book. 

I will mention still another. It is a boy's sermon, and is 
known as " The Cobweb Story." A boy, after attending a 
new school a few days, was observed to laugh very immoder- 
ately. The teacher, in the most emphatic manner, demanded 
an explanation. The boy declined to explain • but the rude- 
ness being so unusual, the teacher insisted, and threatened 
chastisement if the reason was not at once given. Finding 
an explanation necessary, the boy reluctantly made a show of 
compromise by proposing to explain on condition that he be 
not punished. The proposition accepted, the boy said, hesi- 
tatingly, " I was thinking" — the teacher all the while demand- 
ing a full - statement, with the promise of exemption from 
punishment if the whole truth was given. "I was thinking," 
he began again, "if there were as many cobwebs under this 
seat as there are on the walls of this school-room, and I 
should get my feet tangled in them, whether there are boys 
enough in the school to pull me out in time for recess." It 
was a moment of suspense; the excited teacher held the switch 
uplifted to smite the boy. The lad evidently had the advan- 
tage. The carelessness of the teacher had allowed a perfect 
net-work of heavily-fringed cobwebs to gather on the walls 
and ceiling of the school-room. A glance of the erring boy 
and that of a hundred other chuckling lads had the effect to 
cool the teacher's passion, and his better judgment asserted 
itself. Though still smarting under the deserved rebuke, he 
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quired where he had met me before, and he replied, "At the 
street-meeting the night previous." Thinking to impress him 
more fully than by merely giving him a nickel, I took him to 
my room, where I applied soap and water, and replaced his 
ragged shirt with a clean one, little worn, from my supply ; 
pinning up the sleeves and collar in the same way, and com- 
pleting the cheap change with a white necktie. The boy's 
changed appearance on combing his hair was a complete sur- 
prise to himself, and an equally pleasant one to me ; and then 
was the time to sow the good seed; and as he was about to 
take his departure, I asked him if he could pray, and he 
replied, "Yes." I then said, "If you will kneel with me I 
will offer a brief prayer, and then yoit may pray." On our 
bended knees that little boy followed me in the Lord's Prayer. 
It has seldom been my pleasure to witness a sad heart and face 
made glad at an expense amounting to less than the cost of 
the plainest meal. One hour later the little fellow sat at my 
side in a meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association 
of Lexington, and was an humble worshiper. I know of no 
better practical way of sowing good seed. 



THE ADDRESS. 

The newsboys' ninth annual Christmas-festival was given 
on December 26, 1881, at Hess's Restaurant, on Fifth Street, 
near Jefferson Street. By previous arrangement, the boys 
gathered at the evening prayer-meeting room, 243 Jefferson 
Street, at 1 o'clock p. m., to hear Col. Alexander Hogeland's 
address. Many of them in their anxiety to be on time reached 
the room just after noon, and while prayer-meeting was in ses- 
sion ; the minister took advantage of the occasion and preached 
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My Dear Boys : After giving thanks to the Lord for this 
pleasant Christmas dinner, I wish to say to you that I am 
greatly pleased with the expression of thoughts contained in 
your letter of acknowledgment for the kindness of good 
friends, and for the brave words of a firm resolve to make 
new efforts in trying to become good and useful men. I may, 
I think, venture to say, this assurance on your part, if carried 
out, is the only compensation your friends desire ; and I know 
of no better time for turning a new leaf than on this Christ- 
mas day. Many a boy has, on just such an occasion as this, 
been stimulated to resolutions for a future course of life — 
industry, honesty, and high moral principles, that have proved 
to be the stepping-stones to a life of happiness to himself and 
great good to others. 

YOUR STOCK IN TRADE. 

You are daily speaking of your " stock in trade." That 
means a ready supply of the articles in the line of your busi- 
ness, so as to be able to fill all orders. The business men keep 
a stock sufficient to promptly meet the demand, and thus pre- 
vent a loss of customers. This same care applies to newsboys. 
Your stock in trade is the few cents in your pocket with which 
you buy papers from day to day. Some of the boys are care- 
less about keeping up their stock of nickels and pennies. This 
habit grows on them; they become more careless, and finally 
drop out of the business. They grow up with the same care- 
less habits. Having failed as newsboys, they are failures in 
every thing else. A few there are who never lose sight of thek 
stock in trade. They are a success in every thing they under- 
take. Let it be the study of each boy to keep in his pocket 
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By way of illustration I will say, that a few years ago I was 
on the sea-shore, and had a conversation with a life-saver. I 
asked him how many lives he could save at a time ; he replied, 
"One, of course." 

It is important for boys to decide what trade they have 
talent for, and undertake to master it. I sometimes refer to a 
couple of boys that were office-boys in the Baltimore & Ohio 
Railroad in Baltimore, who did n't object to making fires and 
sweeping out the office. After a month of this service they 
were sent to the draught-room ; and but little was heard of 
them for twenty-five years. One was an American, the other 
a German. Thirty years after, the German boy (Albert Fink) 
became vice-president of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad; 
and he it is who built the great iron bridge at Louisville. 
Thatcher Perkins, the American boy, became a builder of 
locomotives and superintendent of machinery for the same 
company at the same time — each getting a salary of several 
thousand dollars a year. Both are highly esteemed and held 
in great honor by their acquaintances. Now, boys, I mention 
these examples of industry and success for your imitation. 
You may not all get to be railroad presidents or builders of 
engines, but the humblest mechanic or street-car driver is just 
as good as the richest and wisest man in the land. It is not 
money that makes the man, but behavior and energy. In a 
conversation a few days ago with a gentleman of experience^ 
who works with children, he remarked that evidence goes to 
show that in well-regulated families, the same as in business, 
firms or manufactories, each child, boy or girl, should be 
assigned some duty; and that by kindness discipline may be 
enforced. The rule holds good among newsboys. Keep your 
hands and face clean, hair nicely combed, and carry a tooth- 
brush. Boys of this class are being hunted up by business 
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pie by staying away from them." However highly we may 
think of ourselves, we are not justified in covering ourselves 
up in a cloak of self-righteousness and avoiding our fellow- 
men, though they be ever so poor. We are told in the Bible 
to love even our enemies. 

god's judgments. 

It is extremely rude and very wicked in boys or men to 
ridicule or make sport of the simple-minded, the lame, the 
deformed, or even intoxicated persons. Sometimes this class 
of thoughtless and wicked people is promptly punished by a 
sudden judgment from the Lord. I will mention a few cases: 

A boy in Canada stole a watch. The police caught him. 
The boy stoutly denied having the watch; he was again ac- 
cused, and again he denied it. Then, as if to make the strong- 
est possible pledge of his innocence, he said to the police, 
"May God strike me dead if I have the watch." At that 
moment he fell dead, and the watch was found in his pocket. 

Still another case, and one well authenticated too, was that 
of a boy on a railway train in Tennessee, who was returning 
from a visit to relatives in a distant part of the county. 
When within ten miles of his home, and while on the train, 
there sat near him a deaf and dumb man, whose efforts at 
trying to speak attracted the boy's attention, and he began in 
a thoughtless and reckless way to imitate the unfortunate, 
stammering man. In an instant he found his own speech 
gone, to the great consternation of himself and the surprise of 
the passengers about him. The station where hi« relatives 
met him was reached. The cordial welcome of kind friends 
was met with only a shake of the head. Arriving at the fam- 
ily residence he motioned for a slate and pencil and wrote> 
"On the train there was a deaf and dumb man. I made sport 
of him, and God, as a judgment, has taken away my voice." 



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first of these was Fred. Fisher, who died on the eighth of Jan- 
uary last. He was a bright and charming boy, well liked by 
all the newsboys and his acquaintances. I mentioned his name 
at the strawberry-festival in June last. He had saved thirty- 
three dollars from the sale of newspapers, and requested his 
father to take the money and pay his funeral expenses. 

The next of these was little Jimmie Hart, who was the 
only son of a widow, and she was very poor. Jimmie's foot 
was crushed, and for a week, during the intense hot weather, 
his suffering was great. I persuaded his mother to send him 
to the City Hospital for treatment, where the physicians cut 
off the foot ; but he finally died on May 13th, and was buried 
from the City Hospital. I was the only man present at the 
funeral except the undertaker. His death was a sad bereave- 
ment to his mother. 

Again, in July, I attended the funeral of Robert Maxey, 
aged twelve years, who lived at 834 Grayson Street. The 
funeral was made up of the father and his two children, aged 
eight and ten years, the undertaker, and myself. The family 
is very poor and could n't go to much expense. The grave 
was dug outside of Cave Hill. It was quite sad to see a little 
newsboy that had shown great industry and struggled hard to 
support his father, a one-armed man, and his little brother and 
sister, buried in such an out-of-the-way place. You must not 
think, my dear boys, that it makes any difference in the care 
of our Heavenly Father as to where we are buried, whether it 
be in the blue waters of the great ocean, with its multitude of 
fish and beds of coral, or in our beautiful Cave Hill, so bright 
with Italian marble and granite monuments, dazzling ever- 
greens and blooming flowers. No, boys, our Heavenly Father 
cares as much for the soul of little Robert as for the richest 
in the 1? ad, and will cause the moon and stars to shine there 
as brr itly as if it rested under a monument of marble on the 
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are pleased. If it is not, you are grieved. So with the Holy 
Spirit; it is ever open and sensitive to our thoughts, be they 
good or bad. Man knows and recognizes the voice in the tel- 
ephone as that of his friend. Equally so with the spirit. No 
matter where we are, the Spirit telephone is open on our 
mind. The great task or duty intrusted now to you and to 
me is the care of this acting, thinking principle, the soul, over 
which we act as protectorates during our short lives. Dying 
does not destroy the air we breathe, nor the loss of our sight 
in any manner affect the sun's light. And so with the thoughts 
of our mind; they are as much the production of an influence 
independent of us as is the light of the sun or the air we 
breathe. We did not create the air nor the light of the sun. 
At our will we regulate the quantity of air taken into the 
lungs, and shrink from excess of light or mourn its absence. 
And the same mind we use to regulate our speaking, eating, 
and drinking we use to regulate our thoughts and actions. It 
is as plain as day that there is in this body a principle known 
as the soul, but independent of the body; and though our bod- 
ies die, after death it still exists as fully as the air or the light 
of the sun. 

Now, boys, I hand you cards of invitation, with the request 
that you preserve them carefully, and commit to memory our 
beautiful and forcible mottoes. The steel engraving on the 
outside represents a ship in the foreground, nearing a port of 
safety, while in the distance there hang dark clouds, giving 
only the faint outlines of another ship far out on the ocean, 
driven by the winds and waves. The picture is symbolical of 
the life before you. So seek, by good and useful lives, to fill 
the place of the ship that's sailing, after a long and stormy 
voyage, into a good and safe harbor. 

With many thanks for the patience you have shown, I wish 
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tenement down in the alley." Respect for the memory of our 
formerly distinguished judge, who was held in high esteem, 
and a desire to aid them, secured for the boy a proffer of the 
position of page in the General Assembly of the State at 
Frankfort. 

Early habits of industry and self-reliance implanted in 
children is the best remedy to suggest in providing against 
misfortunes. 



A UNION SOLDIER SEES THE AMERICAN FLAG, 
AND DIES SMILING. 

It was my privilege to serve in the Union army in the war 4 
of the rebellion, and I was one of thousands of Union sol- 
diers who fell into the hands of the Confederates. In due 
course of time, with several thousand other prisoners of war, 
I was taken from Libby Prison and sent to Aikin's Landing, 
twelve miles distant from the city of Richmond, on the James 
River. It was on a September day in 1862. As one com- 
pany after another of the soldiers passed the brow of the hill 
and caught sight of the Union flag flying from the steamers, 
plainly visible a mile distant over the plain, cheers/long and 
loud, followed each other, making the welkin ring. Many 
were so overjoyed at the sight of the stars and stripes that they 
shouted themselves hoarse, while others, feeble from disease 
and long confinement, gave evidence of their great joy. One 
case, causing unusual remark, was that of an invalid Union 
soldier who was being carried on the shoulders of his com- 
rades to the beach. When within a hundred feet of the vessel 
that was to carry him home he caught a view of the star- 
spangled banner, and, although unable to speak, he waved 
his hand and smiled in recognition, and in an instant later 
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light ! I see light ! and it do n't hurt my eyes ! " and in other 
ways gave expressions of her intense joy. 

And now, my young readers, the Lord has intrusted each 
of you with the temporary guardianship of your faculties of 
mind and body, and you should take special care to guard 
your health by avoiding dissipation, exposure, and excess. 



CUEE FOE STAMMEEING. 



Few complaints are so disagreeable and embarrassing as 
stammering. Hundreds of remedies are suggested; and per- 
sons claiming to effect a cure are generally certain of a fee, 
while the patient receives little or no relief. I am, however, 
in possession of a simple remedy, and one easily understood 
even by children. I know that there are multitudes of per- 
sons suffering from the impediment, who, if they had the 
means, would employ persons claiming to be experts. It is 
money thrown away, I have already in this work given the 
plain remedy. It is a certain cure, if the rule is observed : 
1. Persons who articulate or speak distinctly, in uttering 
words, habitually place the tongue against the roof of the 
mouth; while, on the contrary, stammering persons drop the 
tongue. Eule : Before speaking, place the tongue firmly 
against the roof of the mouth ; then close the lips, and count 
or repeat names of persons, places, or things, slowly at first, 
observing the rule of replacing the tongue before uttering 
each word. Confirming this theory is the old rule of placing 
a pebble under the tongue, and thus assisting in keeping the 
latter in its place. I have many times successfully tried the 
foregoing remedy. Any person, from six years old to man- 
hood, can cure himself. At any rate, the rule is simple, and 
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Out in the street, his poor bare feet 

Trudging along in the snow and the sleet 5 

O Father, in love look down from above 

On the poor little newsboy alone in the street. 

Still colder the blast, and the snow falling fast, 

Benumbed the bare feet of the half-frozen child, 
His hands are so cold, his papers unsold, 

And the heart in his bosom is throbbing so wild. 
Once more hear him cry, " My papers, who '11 buy ? 

"Oh! is there not some one that cares though I die?" 
A shivering chill, and then all is still, 

While softly the snow-flakes come down from the sky. 

The morning's bright glow falls soft on the snow, 

As it covers, in pity, the poor little form ; 
See the old tattered coat drawn so close to his throat, 

How it sparkles with jewels that fell in the storm ! 
But he 's dead ; oh ! he 's dead, his spirit has fled. 

And far up in heaven the angels will greet, 
"With welcome of love to the pleasures above, 

The poor little newsboy that died in the street. 

SECOND CHORUS. 

Out of the street, the snow and sleet, 

Gone is his spirit the angels to meet; 
No longer he '11 roam without any home, 

For the poor little newsboy, he 's dead on the street. 



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CONTENTS. 127 

Street Scene in Newsboy Life, 37 

Do Little Things, 38 

Mottoes for Boys and Girls, 39 

First Annual Address of Newsboys, 1873, 40 

Hints to Pastors, Parents, and Teachers, fc . 41 

Boy and Girl Life, • 43 

The Prize Story, 45 

Energy the Secret of Success, 46 

Boys as Creatures of Imitation, 47 

Our Daily Actions Photographed, 48 

A Victim of Improper Habits, 48 

Threw his Father Down Stairs, 48 

Sergeant Lucien Young, 49 

The Model Steamboat Mate, 49 

The Sailor-boy at Prayer, 51 

A New York Newsboy, .53 

" Hot Potatoes ; " or, the Bound Boy, 54 

Being Missionaries, 56 

Heaven, Pictured by a Boy, 56 

Sermons of Two Little Girls, . 58 

Forty-five Years in Prison, 59 

The Convict's Farewell Address, 59 

Pool-room Gambling, 60 

Bad Habits, 61 

Church of the Land and the Sea, .62 

The Good we do Lives after us ; or, Mrs. Sadd, the City Mis- 
sionary, . 63 

A Four-year-old Boy Preaches a Sermon, 64 

A Dream Eealized — Ten Thousand Dollars Stolen and Re- 
covered, 67 

Harrison Burns ; or, a Boy's Bible gets him a Situation, . . 68 

Finding a Fifty-dollar Note, 69 

The Paradise Month of Seventeen Years; or, How Good 

Seed is Sown, 71 

Give him the Trade for which he has Talent, 72 

The Greatest Good to the Greatest Number, 74 

Helping One Another, 76 

From the Cabin to the Palace, . . 77 

Wanted Something More than Flowers, 79 





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